Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industrial affiliation, that an emergency exists in our city . . . and that I will avail myself of ... the laws of our State, to the end that the results of this industrial conflict may fall as lightly as possible on all our people. We must realize that our government is bigger and greater than any organization or association which may be one of its component parts...
...strike that San Francisco had last week. Other marine unions?seamen, pilots, cooks and stewards?jumped into the fray with demands of their own for pay, hours, union recognition. Hot-headed strike leaders welcomed alliance with open arms, for it gave them an opportunity to shake a bigger stick. When Joseph P. Ryan, national president of the International Longshoremen's Association, tried to negotiate a settlement on the basis of non-partisan control of the hiring halls, Leader Bridges and his embattled followers turned down the agreement because it did not provide for their allies. Their determination to win unconditional...
...territory like Alaska. Unlike Puerto Rico, which keeps all for itself, it pays into the Federal treasury income taxes, internal revenue taxes, customs' duties, has sent an average of $5,000,000 a year to Washington for each of the last 34 years. Its tax contribution is bigger than that of any one of 17 full-fledged states. Geography can be argued against Statehood for Hawaii but not governmental finances...
...expenses would fall, the Government would spend less, and tax receipts would begin to increase. Chief worry of economists last week was that this change might be postponed until such a huge investable surplus had been piled up that when it finally pours into industry, it will produce a bigger and more dangerous boom than that...
...boards. Under his new authority President Roosevelt last week began replacing the old National Labor Board with new and smaller agencies to ease the tension on the industrial front. The first board created was for the biggest current strike; the second was for what threatened to be an even bigger strike...